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Infrastructure as Code

Infrastructure as code moves servers and networks into the same review, history and rollback workflow as application code. The benefit that matters most is not automation; it is that you can answer "what changed?" with a diff.

The hard parts are state and drift. Terraform provisions resources and records what it created; when reality diverges from that record — someone clicked something in a console — you get the failures that make IaC feel fragile. Understanding state is most of understanding Terraform.

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